All the games of the 6th round of the FIDE Women Grand Prix in Ankara ended with decisive results. Humpy Koneru won against the earlier co-leader Ruan Lufei in the line which already happened in the game Kosintseva-Koneru. Anna Muzyhcuk displayed a fantastic fighting spirit and managed to win against Betul Yildiz after 130 moves [...]

No one knows why they bother, but the Michigan Wolverines are coming to Notre Dame stadium where, several minutes hence, they will be metaphorically obliterated by the Fighting Irish. The whuppin' starts in about 5-10 minutes on NBC; pre-game material can be accessed here.

The players arrived for the 2nd round of the FIDE Grand Prix in London in high spirits, chatting together and joking, probably thanks to the beautiful weather we have here in London. Gelfand, the only winner in yesterday’s round and current leader of the tournament, faced today the former FIDE World Champion (2005), Veselin Topalov [...]

In round 2 of the London Grand Prix, it was again the case that a majority of the games were drawn, though - again - most of the games were hard fought. There were two decisive results: Peter Leko outplayed Vassily Ivanchuk in a French Defense (Steinitz Variation), and Hikaru Nakamura managed to swindle Rustam Kasimdzhanov at the end of the second time control to get back to 50%. In...

Μια παρτίδα σε σκακιέρα πλατείας, στην πόλη  Κράιστσερτς (Christchurch) της Νέας Ζηλανδίας. Το 1848 έφτασαν στην περιοχή πλοία από την Αγγλία που μετέφεραν μέλη της νεοϊδρυθείσας Canterbury Association, ενός συλλόγου με σκοπό την...

Μια σειρά αγώνων, με περιορισμένο αριθμό παιχτών, ξεκίνησε χθες η FIDE(η παγκόσμια ομοσπονδία σκακιού) για την περίοδο 2012-13. Τα τουρνουά θα διεξαχθούν σε διαφορετικές πόλεις και οι δυο πρώτοι από το κάθε ξεχωριστό...

Άρχισαν οι προπονήσεις   Το Σάββατο 15 Σεπτεμβρίου ξεκίνησαν και για φέτος το φθινόπωρο τα προπονητικά τμήματα του Σ.Ο. Χαλανδρίου. Οι προπονήσεις διεξάγονται κάθε Παρασκευή 16.45-20.30 και κάθε Σάββατο 9.30-15.30 με τμήματα για...

Το παρακάτω κείμενο υπογράφουν ο Κώστας Αλεξίου, οΒαγγέλης Βιδάλης, ο Σπύρος Ιλαντζής και ο Νίκος Παπανδρέου.Εν  όψει των επερχόμενων εκλογών για την ανάδειξη του νέου Δ.Σ. της ΕΣΟ για την επόμενη τετραετία θεωρούμε...

That about sums it up! As I mentioned in the earlier post, Black was pressing in most of the round 1 games, but only Boris Gelfand managed to grab the full point. Hikaru Nakamura decided to test him in a sideline of Sicilian Sveshnikov, but Gelfand managed to achieve a decent position. The game was likely to be a draw, but Nakamura got careless and in the ending with rooks and opposite-colored...

Although I have one regular student who is middle-aged and occasionally others who are young adults or seniors, most students are in the 5-18 age range. The question naturally arises, do students learn in different ways at different ages, and should we teach them accordingly? Other contributions will continue to focus on the chess education [...]

The first round of the FIDE Grand Prix in London started at 2pm local time with the first move played by the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Most of the games started smoothly and the Chinese player Wang Hao was playing very quickly the first 20 moves, with still 1h56m on his clock. His opponent was [...]

Opening night, I didn’t now what to expect. It was a very fashionable affair (to my knowledge) and everything ran smoothly. If this is anything to go by, I believe the chess world is in very good hands. In the crowd, I even spotted some celebs Sophie Ellis Bextor (murder on the dance floor fame) [...]

The Rector Cup MGSU “Our Heritage” is set to take place on 8-11th November at the Moscow State Civil Engineering University. The tournament will be held over 11 rounds of Swiss system, with time control of 15 minutes per game plus 10 seconds per move. The tournament will be recognized as a stage of the [...]

Κείμενα που εγκρίθηκαν Πέμπτη 15 Μαρτίου 2012 - Στρασβούργο Καθιέρωση του προγράμματος «Σκάκι στο σχολείο» στα εκπαιδευτικά συστήματα της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης Διαβάστε την απόφαση εδώ.

The 13th Lausanne Open Chess Tournament was held on 14-17th September at the Salle de Fête in Casino de Montbenon, Lausanne, Switzerland. The tournament was played over 7 rounds of Swiss system with 89 participants. Grandmasters Tigran Gharamian (France), Mikhail Ulibin (Russia) and Krasimir Rusev (Bulgaria) shared the first place with 5,5 points each. Gharamian [...]